Poems about America and being American
#America
Poems about America and American culture, history, politics and lifestyle. Also poems about places, states and cities within America, and poetry about American poets and famous American people.
Bonanza1
Poem Published
30th Jun 2024 7:44pm
30th Jun 2024 7:44pm
Bibs: A love story
Here and there he snuck in a word or two,
a partial sentence sometimes on big days when the scene played itself out in public,
The Walmart auto section clientele got a glimpse of who he truly was.
Necessity had bred his personality.
Expressed emotion was but a hiccup.
Most days he spent his time up in his nuts,
Brooding over the deliberate misuse of sugar in coffee and cream the color of his high school biology teacher.
He had failed the class.
Black coffee would not tempt any fate other than the one...
a partial sentence sometimes on big days when the scene played itself out in public,
The Walmart auto section clientele got a glimpse of who he truly was.
Necessity had bred his personality.
Expressed emotion was but a hiccup.
Most days he spent his time up in his nuts,
Brooding over the deliberate misuse of sugar in coffee and cream the color of his high school biology teacher.
He had failed the class.
Black coffee would not tempt any fate other than the one...
#America
109 reads
4 Comments
herry_the_poet
Poem Published
23rd Jun 2024 6:22pm
23rd Jun 2024 6:22pm
Donner Pass
Eighteen hundred and forty-six
A little late in the spring
Migrating toward the setting sun
was a real fashionable thing
You've heard about Lansford Hastings?
He wrote an emigrant's guide
To encourage movement westward
and get folks across the divide
He'd exaggerate this shortcut
that runs through some rugged terrain
It's inaccurate at best
and crippled at least one campaign
There was an agenda at work
and a population to grow
There was this story to conjure
about a party we should know
Brothers George...
A little late in the spring
Migrating toward the setting sun
was a real fashionable thing
You've heard about Lansford Hastings?
He wrote an emigrant's guide
To encourage movement westward
and get folks across the divide
He'd exaggerate this shortcut
that runs through some rugged terrain
It's inaccurate at best
and crippled at least one campaign
There was an agenda at work
and a population to grow
There was this story to conjure
about a party we should know
Brothers George...
#America
117 reads
0 Comments
prometheus5290
Poem Published
23rd Jun 2024 10:46am
23rd Jun 2024 10:46am
American football and stupidity
Invent a game about hitting people,
then make rules against ways to hit people.
then make rules against ways to hit people.
#America
120 reads
2 Comments
Pinkdreams
Poem Published
22nd Jun 2024 1:31am
22nd Jun 2024 1:31am
If I taught in Louisiana
If I taught in Louisiana
you best believe I'd know the score,
I post the ten commandments in Hebrew
and hang a mezuzah by the door
The kids could sit on a pentagram rug
in the lotus position if they choose,'
Unitarian talks and Pagan rites
with inclusion you can't lose
The next mandate is not hard to guess:
Trump's picture on the wall
a breaker of every commandment
the irony lost on each and all
Talk of separation of church and state
would only be met with anger and hate
should I be forced to hang doctrine...
you best believe I'd know the score,
I post the ten commandments in Hebrew
and hang a mezuzah by the door
The kids could sit on a pentagram rug
in the lotus position if they choose,'
Unitarian talks and Pagan rites
with inclusion you can't lose
The next mandate is not hard to guess:
Trump's picture on the wall
a breaker of every commandment
the irony lost on each and all
Talk of separation of church and state
would only be met with anger and hate
should I be forced to hang doctrine...
#America
#religion
#school
144 reads
6 Comments
Pinkdreams
Poem Published
21st Jun 2024 6:25pm
21st Jun 2024 6:25pm
Amtrak Senryu
no train from Phoenix
just Maricopa
that is a joka
in America
so many bullets
but no bullet trains
Vistaliner, yes
see great scenery
redeeming feature
talk of modern trains
like Europe and Asia
'bout freaking time
another delay
Smokey Robinson playing
tracks of my tears
Amtrak derailments
frequent as my thoughts
both aging systems
just Maricopa
that is a joka
in America
so many bullets
but no bullet trains
Vistaliner, yes
see great scenery
redeeming feature
talk of modern trains
like Europe and Asia
'bout freaking time
another delay
Smokey Robinson playing
tracks of my tears
Amtrak derailments
frequent as my thoughts
both aging systems
#America
#senryu
#trains
135 reads
10 Comments
Villev
Poem Published
9th May 2024 11:49pm
9th May 2024 11:49pm
High Upon Stone
Ice cracked bones
Heart made of stone
The statue sits upon its throne
All alone birds tend
Her loneliness
Heeding her muted cries
Within is a heart
That could never lie
Outside a body and face
That shall never die
Heart made of stone
The statue sits upon its throne
All alone birds tend
Her loneliness
Heeding her muted cries
Within is a heart
That could never lie
Outside a body and face
That shall never die
#America
#art
#Britain
#culture
#historical
104 reads
0 Comments
Isgyppie_
Poem Published
25th Apr 2024 8:59am
25th Apr 2024 8:59am
I am afraid of what my Husband has become
He has drained all of my resources
And makes me work day to night
I can’t escape because the money
He takes funds a genocide
He has control over my body
And what I may or may not do
He poisons my food and water
And feeds me prescriptions until I’m blue
He sent our child to school
Knowing the teacher is armed and loaded
There is no place to go where
His morality hasn’t folded
He’ll silence me completely
If I do not stand up now
...
And makes me work day to night
I can’t escape because the money
He takes funds a genocide
He has control over my body
And what I may or may not do
He poisons my food and water
And feeds me prescriptions until I’m blue
He sent our child to school
Knowing the teacher is armed and loaded
There is no place to go where
His morality hasn’t folded
He’ll silence me completely
If I do not stand up now
...
#America
#NaPoWriMo2024
121 reads
3 Comments
Josiah
Poem Published
18th Apr 2024 4:38am
18th Apr 2024 4:38am
Be My Getaway Driver
Wound up, lucid, in my American daydreams
News, sounding like high density magazines
With red, paintings, draining from the curbs
Hiring getaway drivers to just escape the burbs
Rich rain, white shirts, flying from Yacht Towers
How, we're all neighbors? Thick hedge flowers
Eyes shut, popping blue pills just to make money
Political kerosene, smelling sweeter than honey
Please, pinch me by the throat, I won't scream
Be my getaway driver, take me from this dream
News, sounding like high density magazines
With red, paintings, draining from the curbs
Hiring getaway drivers to just escape the burbs
Rich rain, white shirts, flying from Yacht Towers
How, we're all neighbors? Thick hedge flowers
Eyes shut, popping blue pills just to make money
Political kerosene, smelling sweeter than honey
Please, pinch me by the throat, I won't scream
Be my getaway driver, take me from this dream
#America
#corruption
#dreams
#NaPoWriMo2024
#politics
126 reads
4 Comments
Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
28th Mar 2024 7:33pm
28th Mar 2024 7:33pm
Secrets Buried in their Assholes!
#lies
#corruption
#politics
#America
#rhyming
93 reads
10 Comments
Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
20th Mar 2024 8:06pm
20th Mar 2024 8:06pm
Perverted PA
#erotic
#America
#funny
#dirty
#passion
207 reads
17 Comments
AaHarvey
Poem Published
4th Feb 2024 8:02pm
4th Feb 2024 8:02pm
Lupe Vélez
It’s your beautiful ending.
It’s your careless sigh.
It’s the way that you ended,
Without a real goodbye.
Aa Harvey © All Rights Reserved 2023 [/font]
It’s your careless sigh.
It’s the way that you ended,
Without a real goodbye.
Aa Harvey © All Rights Reserved 2023 [/font]
#identity
#death
#America
#ShortStory
#PopCulture
142 reads
1 Comment
Pinkdreams
Poem Published
18th Dec 2023 1:06am
18th Dec 2023 1:06am
Machine Guns in the Park
I love my new park
It has two half basketball courts.
A lake.
A wide u-shaped fountain,
where one can sit on benches
comforted by the sound
of rivulets of water cascading down stone.
That is as long as one isn't interrupted by the staccato of machine gun fire
Fake is better than the real thing.
Far, far better.
But a plastic machine gun
complete with real sound effects! (sans the tortured, terrorized screams of innocent people- maybe that costs extra)
in the hands of a four year old
is disconcerting. ...
It has two half basketball courts.
A lake.
A wide u-shaped fountain,
where one can sit on benches
comforted by the sound
of rivulets of water cascading down stone.
That is as long as one isn't interrupted by the staccato of machine gun fire
Fake is better than the real thing.
Far, far better.
But a plastic machine gun
complete with real sound effects! (sans the tortured, terrorized screams of innocent people- maybe that costs extra)
in the hands of a four year old
is disconcerting. ...
#anger
#GunControl
#America
265 reads
9 Comments
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